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An Indian court has granted permission to survey a centuries-old mosque to determine if it contains Hindu relics and symbols, Reuters reported on Thursday. The verdict comes as a boost to Hindu groups which claim it was built on a…

Imam Hussein Chairty based in London has their annual Afghanistan winter appeal campaign but this year they have a special project for the campaign, ‘Chill for Change’. The idea behind this is that 3 Shia personalities, Mulla Ali Fadhil, Mulla…

Junta troops fired a shell at Mandalay division’s Tha Hpan Kaing village on Wednesday night, killing two women and an 8-year-old child, RFA reported on Thursday, adding two others were also injured. Ten soldiers entered Madaya township from a neighboring…

An exhibition of Islamic art spanning one thousand years has gone on display at University of York’s Borthwick Centre for Archives, the center posted on its website yesterday. The exhibition of ceramics, paintings, artefacts and photographs marks the launch of…

Two US men have been charged with illegally killing about 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles, BBC reported on Thursday. Simon Paul and Travis John Branson allegedly shot the birds over several years on Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation and…

Three policemen were killed while another two were injured in Pakistan after the local police headquarters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Tank district came under attack, Dawn news agency reported Today. According to the Police statement, one of several militants first exploded…

As part of its humanitarian and cultural activities, the UK-based “Who is Hussain?” organization has visited a blind school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and met with its students and teachers. According to a statement on its official Facebook page,…

“Ya Lathrat al-Hussein” and “Khadamat Ahlulbayt” mourning and service committees have launched a campaign to honor the Holy Fatimid Days in Holy Karbala, which includes distributing mourning banners and posters to restaurant owners, commercial establishments, and tourist companies. The owners…

The German Interior Ministry has adopted a new initiative to phase out a training program that assigns Turkish imams to German mosques, DW reported on Thursday. According to the source, Germany looks to train its own Muslim clerics in a…

International non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have issued a dire warning about the plight of nearly half a million Afghans who have recently returned to their homeland. The Norwegian Refugee Council, alongside eight other aid agencies, is calling for increased international support…